bill fraser gallery manifesto
proto-modern
suchness
energiesshapingcyclesrepeating creativeconvergentevolution
animated circular metamorphosis
persistent motion forces of interconnected interactions
gravity volcanic convections tectonic folds thunder and lightning clouds snowflakes
diatoms and silica grasses’ watershed micro-organisms turning rock into nutrients
mycelium connecting talking trees
vibratingfrequenciesspiralinggeneticcode
tendencies
“i try to make nothing
but i can’t
nothing is always about something
all that i make has been made
all art wants to be it has been”
ecology phenomena
non-linearrudimentaryinvisiblechoreographyongoing
birds flying in synchronicity beavers damming running water
webs nests hives mounds burrowed tunnels
little beetles munching beneath tree bark etching intricate galleries turning sapwood into art
wonderous observations mysterious uncertainties
read tim ingold
importantaffinitiesreciprocalco-creativity modernbeforemodern
one-ness
artecology
method
reflectiveengagedinterdependentco-existence
making cosmic joyful playful mess
between conscious and unconscious imagining creates reality
nothing and something hammer and nails twisted wire colourful paints gathered bits and pieces
wood and stones
using string to tether the universe to humanness
artist outsider making dimensional synthesis as artist one must imagine Sisyphus happy (camus)
kafkas’ gatekeepers as rocks
read john k. grande mark a. cheetham
improvisespontaneousimmersion
belonging
“omnianimatic philosophy: open to proto-modern
all and everything animated relations”
in situ vernacular
subjectivequaliadaseinperceptionsUmweltenworld-viewsidiosyncraticimaginations
local gravity energy entanglements revealing forest-time multi-worlds equilibriums
immanent transcendent intuitive transformations feral wisdom rejecting aesthetic precepts
being on the land in the land topophilia sentient a forest studio transient ephemeral holistic
freedom doing visual speaking autotelic sound circle hermeneutic phenomenology dynamic forces
paterson ewen’s phenomascapes bill fraser’s phantomations
biophilia biophilic read eric fromm e.o. wilson
rehabilitationsregressionsrewildingreturning
unfolding
abstraction
khôra spaces
fluxbetweenworlds’ is-ness resonancegrowthhealthywellbeing
handmade in a new age where all that is solid melts
capable vulnerability and risk
turning into air
read the letter from the future of life institute “Statement on Superintelligence” 850+ October avant-garde signiors
can principles really regulate insular motivations?
ai is pretend not like fertile imagination hegemony apparatus matrixing executive cognitions
painterseleventransformedtheabstractionofnatureintoimportantimagesofnature’sart
transcognitive inference
“abstraction resists ai ubiquity cultural passivity thinkproto-modernsensorialautonomousactivepersonalknowledge
ai lacks life history personality judgement lateral conjecture experiential emotive imaginary”
discern
flawedhumanitydynamicselfscreamawakedonotlosehumaneffort
defy algorithm expressions subvert amalgamated aggregates rupture formulas
be in the moment be authentic be deliberate
useimaginationasabsurdintelligence be surprised unpredictabledisruptyourcomforttouchtactilesurfaces
go barefoot
use Gestalt intuit
to perceive inside perception
read rudolf arnheim with care
ambiguousrandomentropypatternedchaoticorder
be awareness
fractalsgoldenratiosfibonacciequences
biomorphics
seeds inside tomorrows’ flowers
in-between
Goethean being-ness
anthropocentric shift
empathyunconsciousinsighttranspersonalmorphologies
poetic
remarkable Ur-phänomen
third space
whererealisabstractedconceptualartecologymetamorphoses
chrysalis
“i am thankful to live and work on traditional lands of Mississauga Ojibwa and Haudenosaunee Nations
and grateful
my ancestors now walk the underground low road of this land with Original Peoples
my mother’s Métis ancestors lived in French-Canadian Cumberland, Ontario
summer camped on Lower Duck Island in the Ottawa River
Algonquin Kichi Zībī Mīkan “Great River Road”
my father’s Scottish Gaelic surname origin story ‘Sìol-Frìth’ seed/descendants of the deer forest
shared the 78th highlanders’ call under Master of Lovat buried along Big River waters”
“iseetheworldthroughtheireyesallthattheysharedismyspirit”
this is a gallery to find small artworks made with nature in mind
this is a gallery where making is connected to joy and being alive
this is a gallery to discover extraordinary— intentional curiosity
manifesto download: billfrasergallery manifesto